9 common injuries that golfers should pay attention

1.  Back Pain 

When swing and rotating can cause great pressure on the spine and muscle. The posture of bending while playing golf with enough repetition can cause spasticity in the back muscles, leading to serious injuries.

You can prevent this back pain by exercising your back muscles through flexibility-focused exercises.

2. Elbow Tendonitis

A golfer’s term for tendonitis, golf elbow is a common term for inflammation in the inner elbow tendon.  Tennis elbow is an equally common injury for golfers. This condition is caused by premature release swings.

3. Injured Rotator Cuff

Rotator Cuff can be caused by high pressure when swinging, hitting obstacles such as tree roots, stones or overtraining. At the same time, the repetitive movements while playing golf can make inflamed tendon, bursitis or torn shoulder muscle. The pain in the shoulder increases when the player makes a swing or raises his hand above his head.

4. Wrist pain

Movement with high speed can caused injures of wrist. The most common condition that golfers is tendonitis, swelling of the tendon.

5. Knee Pain 

When starting to perform the swing, the knee must bear great tension to balance the rotation axis of the hip. The intense force of continuous impact on the knee will gradually damage the ligament, tear, causing intense pain in the knee joint.

6. Hand and finger injuries

Movement with high speed can caused injures hand and finger. The most common condition is tendonitis, fracture or bone deformity

7. Neck injuries

This type of injury is most common in golf beginners, not accustom. After a few hours of golfing, the neck muscles can be twisted, making a stiff neck and sore.

8. Foot and ankle injuries

Occurs when losing  foot balance, makes an incorrect technical swing, strikes the ball on an uneven surface. Sprains, ankles or foot bones, blisters are common injuries.

9. Hip Pain 

Hip muscles are usually very flexible and can withstand with high pressure. However, it is very vulnerable to injuries due to a series of twisting movements when playing golf.

When performing these movements, the hip muscles are dependent on the pull, bend, widen actions and they are repeatedly. Therefore, it requires muscles must closely combine. It is the rotation and sliding actions that will cause lower back and hip injuries.

To treat injuries when playing golf effectively without medicine

Playing golf improperly or over training can easily lead to injuries.

If treated improperly will make the condition become worse.

Use of painkillers is the choice of many diseases, but this is a solution only effective temporary pain relief, when stopping patients still face persistent pain, even worse.

In order for the treatment to be effective, patients need to be checked to determine the exact cause and location of damaged and misleading joints. From there, the doctor will give the appropriate course of treatment.

Spinal manipulation effectively help cure injured when playing golf. There have been many patients suffering from injuries when playing golf  that can recover after treatment at RAKU RAKU Center.

Manual therapy to correct dislocated structures, return them to their natural position, reduce compression on the spinal nerves, thereby healing pain without medication or surgery.

Physiotherapy is combined with manipulation to rehabilitate patients. With modern treatment support  such as spine stretchers, patients can quickly recover their spinal function and return to normal activities.

To avoid injuries when playing golf, players need to follow the proper golfing techniques, equip proper training equipment, avoid over training, pay attention to start and perform stretching exercises before starting. head training. Injuries are common when playing golf and some treatments.

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